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SEATTLE – The Bridgeport Purple Knights had the top individual score on three of the four events on Friday afternoon, and won the first session of the team semifinals at the USA Gymnastics Collegiate National Championships.
The Knights posted a season-high total of 195.575 points in Brougham Pavilion at Seattle Pacific University. That topped their previous season-best of 195.050, set on March 10 in a meet at Arizona State.
It also was the second-highest score among USAG teams this year, bettered only by the 196.000 of Texas Woman's University in a regular-season quad meet.
Joining Bridgeport for Saturday night's team finals in Brougham will be Cornell. The Big Red grabbed the second of the two qualifying spots by scoring 194.200.
Bridgeport, which shared the 2009 national championship with Cornell, then won five straight from 2010-14, was led by senior Kimberly Stewart. She posted the session's highest score on any event with a 9.925 on the floor.
Stewart was one of three Knights in the 9.9 neighborhood. Fellow senior Brianna Comport was right behind Stewart on the floor with a 9.900, and freshman Maya Reimers had a 9.900 to lead the session on the balance beam.
Thomara Powell-Brown, a Bridgeport sophomore, had the best uneven parallel bars score of the afternoon with a 9.800.
Kara Witgen of Air Force was tops on the vault at 9.850.
Cornell had the team lead after the first rotation, scoring 48.775 on the floor, while Bridgeport totaled 48.625 on the bars.
The Purple Knights then racked up 48.950 on the beam – the lowest of their five counting scores was 9.725 – to move into first place, and stayed there the rest of the day. They bolstered the advantage to more than a full point ahead of Cornell with 49.300 on the floor. That was the highest total for any of the four teams in any event, and was the only one in the 49-point range.
Saturday's team finals begin at 7:00 p.m. The other two spots will be filled from Friday's second semifinal session, which features two-time defending champion Lindenwood of Missouri, along with Texas Woman's, Brown, Yale, and host Seattle Pacific.
USA GYMNASTICS COLLEGIATE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
Friday, April 7, 2017
Brougham Pavilion / Seattle, Wash.
TEAM SEMIFINAL NO. 1
Team scores
(Top 2 advance to finals)
1, Bridgeport 195.575
2, Cornell 194.200
3, West Chester 193.525
4, Air Force 192.900
Vault
(Top 5 plus ties advance to finals)
1, Kara Witgan, AF, 9.850
2, Kimberly Stewart, BP, 9.825
3, Nina Whittaker, BP, 9.800
4, Anna Salamone, AF, 9.775
5t, Lyanda Dudley, Corn, 9.750
5t, Majesta Valentine, WC, 9.750
Uneven Parallel Bars
(Top 5 plus ties advance to finals)
1, Thomara Powell-Brown, BP, 9.800
2t, Anna Salamone, AF, 9.775
2t, Majesta Valentine, WC, 9.775
4t, Kelly Aycock, BP, 9.750
4t, Maritza Futch, BP, 9.750
4t, Lauren Wong, Corn, 9.750
4t, Kaitlin Green, Corn, 9.750
Balance Beam
(Top 5 plus ties advance to finals)
1, Maya Reimers, BP, 9.900
2, Kaitlin Green, Corn, 9.875
3t, Carol Chiles, BP, 9.850
3t, Joy Gage, Corn, 9.850
3t, Majesta Valentine, WC, 9.850
Floor Exercise
(Top 5 plus ties advance to finals)
1, Kimberly Stewart, BP, 9.925
2, Brianna Comport, BP, 9.900
3t, Casey Ball, AF, 9.850
3t, Kara Witgen, AF, 9.850
3t, Kelsey Campbell, BP, 9.850
3t, Maya Reimers, BP, 9.850
3t, Lyanda Dudley, Corn, 9.850
3t, Nicole Swirbalus, Penn, 9.850
All-Around
(Final standings to be determined after Semifinal No. 2)
1, Majesta Valentine, WC, 39.200
2, Lyanda Dudley, Corn, 39.075
3, Maya Reimers, BP, 39.025
4, Kelsey Campbell, BP, 39.000
5, Selena Swanger, WC, 38.250
6, Kara Witgen, AF, 37.950
7, Tavia Smith, Centenary, 36.250
8, Mariana Murphy, AF, 28.350
